FNP

The 7th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2026)

LREC 2026 — Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 16 May 2026
Website: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fnp2026/

Submit a paper

📢 Submission URL: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/FNP2026/

Workshop Overview

Since its launch at LREC 2018 in Miyazaki, the Financial Narrative Processing (FNP) initiative has grown into a well-established international forum for research in Financial NLP. Originally conceived as an exploratory effort, FNP has since developed into a mature and influential series of workshops and shared tasks that shape the design of automated and computer-aided methods for extracting, summarising, and analysing both qualitative and quantitative financial data.

The 7th edition of FNP (2026) marks the eleventh international Financial NLP event organised under the FNP initiative and the seventh dedicated FNP workshop, highlighting the sustained expansion of the field. Over the past decade, research in Accounting and Finance has moved beyond largely manual and small-scale analyses towards sophisticated approaches driven by Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. Throughout this period, FNP has played a central role by organising a sequence of major international events, introducing widely adopted shared tasks, and releasing datasets and methodologies that have become foundational resources for the research community.

Previous Events

Since 2018, we have organised ten Financial NLP–related events, summarised below.

  • 1st FNP – LREC, 2018, Japan – Papers: 11 | Participants: 20
  • TAMAF-1 – Lancaster University, 2018, UK | Participants: 40
  • TAMAF-2 – Lancaster University, 2019, UK | Participants: 40
  • 2nd FNP – NoDaLiDa, 2019, Finland – Papers: 11 | Participants: 25
  • FNS – RANLP, 2019, Bulgaria  | Participants: 20
  • FNP–FNS – COLING, 2020, Spain – Papers: 37 | Participants: 30
  • 3rd FNP – Online, 2021, UK – Papers: 22 | Participants: 120
  • 4th FNP – LREC, 2022, France – Papers: 25 | Participants: 50
  • 5th FNP – IEEE Big Data, 2023, Italy – Papers: 20 | Participants: 20
  • 6th FNP – COLING, 2024–25, UAE – Papers: 49 | Participants: 65

Shared Task at FNP 2026

🪙 Financial Causality Detection (FinCausal 2026)

📢Registration is now open: https://leptis.lllf.uam.es/fincausal2026/

Our longest-running shared task, now in its sixth year.
New in 2026:

  • In FinCausal 2026, we have introduced more features and innovations:
    • Complete review of the previous datasets, removing ambiguous or very simple cases. More than 500 new fragments with complex relationships have been added (such as a causal chain of three or more elements).
    • Rephrasing of the abstractive questions in 10% of the cases, to create a dataset that requires more advanced reasoning and is less dependent on similarity to the original text.
    • Random partitioning of the training and test sets, based on the new 2026 dataset. In this way, the innovations are distributed evenly.
    • Introduction of an LLM-as-a-judge–based evaluation metric, which scores system responses on a 1–5 scale according to their adequacy. This metric replaces the previous SAS + Exact Match evaluation scheme and aligns FinCausal with current practices adopted in recent shared tasks and competitions.

Invited Speaker


Dr Pablo Haya
Head of Business and Language Analytics (BLA), IIC

Universidad AutĂłnoma de Madrid

Call for Papers

We invite submissions of original, unpublished research in Financial NLP and Financial Text Analysis, including theoretical work, methods, datasets, resources, applications, and negative results.

Topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Core technologies for financial narratives: morphological analysis, tokenisation, disambiguation, part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition, chunking, parsing, semantic role labelling, sentiment analysis, document quality, and advanced readability metrics.
  • Ethics, diversity, and wellbeing: using NLP to detect misreporting and biases in financial narratives relating to gender, ethnicity, representation of women at work, employee wellbeing, mental health, and organisational stability.
  • Resources and tools: financial dictionaries, annotated corpora, benchmarks, software, and novel methodologies.
  • Summarisation in financial contexts: single- and multi-document summarisation, headline generation, evaluation of summaries, and cross-domain or cross-lingual summarisation (e.g., company blogs, market briefs, product reviews).
  • Social media and financial discourse: analysing online platforms to capture public opinion and sentiment around financial events.
  • Multilingual and cross-regulatory perspectives: exploring financial narratives across languages, dialects, and varying international regulatory regimes.
  • Ongoing and preliminary research: work-in-progress studies with promising early findings.
  • Negative results: experiments showing where methods (including state-of-the-art models such as BERT and its variants) succeed or fail across languages, domains, or tasks.

Submission Types

  • Long papers: Up to 8 pages

  • Short papers: Up to 4 pages

Formatting will follow the LREC 2026 guidelines.

📢 Submission URL: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/FNP2026/

Key Dates

  • 4 Dec 2025 – First Call for Papers
  • 10 Jan 2026 – Second Call for Papers
  • 5 Jan 2026 – Shared-task training set release
  • 1 Feb 2026 – Shared-task blind test release
  • 15 Feb2026 – Shared-task system submissions
  • 20 Feb 2026 – Paper submission deadline
  • 11 Mar 2026 – Acceptance notifications
  • 30 Mar 2026 – Camera-ready deadline (hard deadline)
  • 16 May 2026 – FNP Workshop will run on Saturday, 16 May 2026

Organisers:

General Chair:

Dr Mo El-Haj Dr Mo El-Haj
Reader/Associate Professor, VinUniversity, Vietnam; Lancaster University, UK

Publicity Chairs

Dr Yanco Amor Torterolo Orta Dr Yanco Amor Torterolo Orta
Research assistant, UNED – Universidad Nacional de EducaciĂłn a Distancia, Spain
Paul Rayson Prof. Paul Rayson
Director of UCREL Research Centre, Lancaster University, UK

Programme Chairs

Prof. Antonio Moreno Sandoval Prof. Antonio Moreno Sandoval
Full Professor, Universidad AutĂłnoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain
Dr Ana GarcĂ­a-Serrano Dr Ana GarcĂ­a-Serrano
Associate Professor of Computer Science, UNED – Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain
Dr Chung-Chi Chen Dr Chung-Chi Chen
Researcher, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

Publication Chair

Prof. Paloma Martínez Fernández Prof. Paloma Martínez Fernández
Full Professor, Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Shared-Task Chair

Dr Jordi Porta Dr Jordi Porta
UAM / Real Academia Española, Spain

Scholarly Impact

FNP has built a strong research presence, producing influential datasets, widely cited papers, and long-running shared tasks. Citation records are publicly available:

 Programme Committee (Confirmed, through serving on previous FNP workshops):

  • Antonio Moreno Sandoval (UAM, Spain)
  • Kim Trottier (HEC, Canada)
  • Doaa Samy (Cairo University, Egypt and LLI-UAM)
  • Blanca Carbajo Coronado (UAM, Spain)
  • Nikiforos Pittaras (NCSR, Demokritos).
  • Denys Proux (Naver Labs, Switzerland)
  • George Giannakopoulos (SKEL Lab – NCSR Demokritos)
  • Mo El-Haj (SCC, Lancaster University, UK)
  • Martin Walker (University of Manchester, UK)
  • Paul Rayson (SCC, Lancaster University, UK)
  • Simonetta Montemagni ( ILC, Italy)
  • Ana Gisbert (Accounting, UAM, Spain)
  • Ana GarcĂ­a Serrano (UNED, Spain)
  • John MConroy (IDA Center for Computing Sciences)
  • Elena Lloret (University of Alicante, Spain)
  • Vangelis Karkaletsis (NCSR Demokritos)
  • Juan Cigarrán (UNED, Spain)
  • Pablo Haya (IIC, Spain)
  • George Petasis (NCSR Demokritos, Greece
  • Paloma MartĂ­nez (UC3M, Spain)
  • Peter Rankel (Elder Research Inc., USA)
  • Juyeon Kang (Outscale Financial Solutions, France)
  • Ismail  El Maarouf (Imprevicible, France)
  • Oi Yee Kwong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 
  • Stefanie Evert (CS, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NĂĽrnberg, Germany)
  • Marta Guerrero (IIC, Spain)
  • Yanco Amor Torterolo Orta (UNED, Spain)
  • Chung-Chi Chen (NIAIST, Japan)
  • Paloma MartĂ­nez Fernández (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
  • Jordi Porta (UAM, Spain)